City of New Orleans v. Dupree

City of New Orleans v. Dupree (1968) was a murder trial that saw Korean War veteran and Southdowns, New Orleans resident Hollis Dupree be found guilty of the murder of two innocent African-Americans. Hollis had killed Trey McCall (age 25) and Lamont Harris (age 24) when they knocked on his house door to ask him for help with fixing a spare tire, and Hollis claimed that he had acted in "self-defense", claiming that they were trying to rob him. Judge Cornelius Holden supported Dupree, as did many racist whites in the city, while African-Americans supported the prosecution due to the obvious racial motive for the murder. Holden's murder by Lincoln Clay allowed for the case to be decided in favor of the prosecution, and Dupree was sentenced to a prison term for his murder of the two young African-Americans.